Professor of Economics, George Mason University. Chief Economist, @bluechip_org. Wrote the Singapore Trilogy, @stanfordpress. Went to the Louvre on a Tuesday.
The paper does not show foreigners commit crimes at the same rate as Germans
Instead, it claims to explain why foreigners commit crimes at higher rates than Germans.
So the title is the opposite of the truth.
Academics, please point out this error candidly, openly.
"At their peak, the Marshall Plan [was] 2.5% of the GDP of countries like France and Germany.
"By 1996, excluding South Africa and Nigeria, the average African country received the equivalent of 12.3% of its GDP in official development aid."